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America’s Costly Health Care: Harvard’s Ashish Jha Shares His Insights on Causes and Solutions

America’s Costly Health Care: Harvard’s Ashish Jha Shares His Insights on Causes and Solutions

This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They discuss his recent report analyzing American health care costs compared to 10 other industrialized nations pointing to lack a of data and price transparency as drivers, suggesting that a combination of public policy and private innovations will lead to an “American solution” to the cost problem.

Dr. Anil Jain, Co-Founder and Senior VP of Explorys

Dr. Anil Jain, Co-Founder and Senior VP of Explorys

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Anil Jain, Co-Founder, Senior VP and Medical Director of Explorys, a cloud-based health data storage and data analytics platform recently acquired by IBM to help form the Watson Health Division. Dr. Jain discusses the platform he developed while at Cleveland Clinic, designed to drive quality and research through better use of information from electronic health records, and how Watson Health will use this system to scale up medical research…

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Russell Branzell, President and CEO of the College of Health Information Management Executives

Russell Branzell, President and CEO of the College of Health Information Management Executives

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Russell Branzell, President and CEO of the College of Health Information Management Executives or CHIME. They discuss the many challenges being faced by health IT executives in the quest for full adoption of electronic health records, meeting meaningful use standards, cybersecurity, and the problematic delay of ICD 10 adoption.

Peter Speyer, Chief Data and Technology Officer at IHME

Peter Speyer, Chief Data and Technology Officer at IHME

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Peter Speyer, Chief Data and Technology Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation at the University of Washington. Mr. Speyer discusses their ground-breaking ongoing global health report, Global Burden of Disease, which utilizes big data analytics to provide an accurate measure of diseases leading to morbidity and mortality in 200 countries around the world.

Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation

Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Chris Murray, Co-Founder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Dr. Murray discusses his ground-breaking report, The Global Burden of Disease 2010, a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the magnitude of global deaths and disability due to diseases, injuries and risk factors by age, sex and geography.